It was a gloriously sunny Saturday afternoon in June 1985 when a convoy of children, peace activists and travellers made their way to an annual free festival on land beside the ancient ruins at Stonehenge. “I don’t think anybody else has been crazy enough to do this. I’m sure other auction houses think this is completely mad.”A spokesman for Bonhams added there had been a “fantastic” amount of interest in the pieces.Dr Morris’s experiment with Congo and other chimpanzees convinced him that the animals could understand some elements behind human art.Although Congo’s work was treated with a combination of scorn and scepticism in the art world, Picasso is thought to have hung one of his paintings on his studio wall.. They were estimated to fetch between £600 and £800, but bidders’ interest in Congo, who produced around 400 paintings in the late 1950s after being discovered by the animal behaviourist Desmond Morris, raised the prices to unexpected levels, and they were eventually sold as one lot for £14,400.After securing the paintings, the American buyer, Howard Hong, said: “In my opinion, they represent the complete evolution of mankind.”Howard Rutkowski, director of modern and contemporary art at Bonhams, said he believed the auction could be the first of its kind.

At first glance, the painting, with its wild, unrestrained brush strokes and use of simple, primary colours, could be the work of the abstract artist Jackson Pollock, if not one of his contemporaries. Does he really have a beard?’Bish: ‘Not necessarily.’Ali: ”Is he man or a woman?Bish: ‘He’s neither a man nor woman.’Ali: ‘Wot? You mean he’s a ladyman’.”. ‘I’m sorry, your honour, but I thought it was a sign from God’.”LENNY BRUCE”If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”ROWAN ATKINSON IN BLACKADDER”Bad weather is God’s way of telling us we should burn more Catholics.”ALI G IN CONVERSATION WITH THE BISHOP OF CORSHAM”Ali: ‘Jesus. All the women were dressed in black, you could only see their eyes And I felt a hand touch my bottom I ignored it I thought, ‘I’m in Mecca – it must be the hand of God’ But then it happened again I didn’t complain. Clearly, my prayers had been answered.”PAMELA STEPHENSON IN ‘THE AYATOLLAH SONG’”There’s a man in Iran, that I can’t resist Much revered, kinda weird. Got this chick in a twist.”BILL MAHER “I was raised half-Jewish and half-Catholic.

When I’d go to confession, I’d say: ‘Bless me, father, for I have sinned – and you know my attorney, Mr Cohen?’”DENIS LEARY”Guns are so plentiful in this country. Every week there’s a nut on a roof with a rifle and a grudge to settle I used to get worried whenever Gorbachev visited America He’s got the bullseye right on his head It would be easy to get off in court. ‘Oh, yes! I did just what you said, and when I got to the bit about coveting thy neighbour’s wife, I remembered just where I’d left it!’ “FATHER TED”Father Jack Hackett: ‘Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!’Father Ted: ‘What was it he used to say about the needy? He had a term for them …Father Dougal: ‘A shower of bastards?’Father Ted: ‘It’s fabulous being a priest – think of all that comfort you bring to the sick and dying. They love it, they can’t get enough of it!”SHAZIA MIRZA”Last year I went to Mecca to repent my sins, and I had to walk around the Black Stone.